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Drilling Productivity Report

Release Date: December 12, 2022 Next Release Date: January 17, 2023 full reportPDF
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New-well oil production per rig
barrels/day		 New-well gas production per rig
thousand cubic feet/day
Region December 2022 January 2023 change December 2022 January 2023 change
Anadarko 697 698 1 3,857 3,903 46
Appalachia 191 191 - 25,981 25,591 (390)
Bakken 1,710 1,720 10 2,547 2,568 21
Eagle Ford 1,522 1,507 (15) 6,041 5,969 (72)
Haynesville 19 19 - 10,760 10,738 (22)
Niobrara 1,388 1,381 (7) 3,492 3,440 (52)
Permian 1,060 1,059 (1) 2,089 2,066 (23)
Rig-weighted average 956 958 2 5,542 5,441 (101)
Oil production
thousand barrels/day		 Gas production
million cubic feet/day
Region December 2022 January 2023 change December 2022 January 2023 change
Anadarko 427 438 11 6,967 6,991 24
Appalachia 126 129 3 35,417 35,530 113
Bakken 1,200 1,221 21 3,323 3,356 33
Eagle Ford 1,231 1,241 10 7,390 7,459 69
Haynesville 37 37 - 16,257 16,409 152
Niobrara 662 674 12 5,124 5,149 25
Permian 5,542 5,579 37 21,268 21,387 119
Total 9,225 9,319 94 95,746 96,281 535
Drilled but uncompleted wells (DUC)
wells
Region October 2022 November 2022 change
Anadarko 710 707 (3)
Appalachia 597 594 (3)
Bakken 501 499 (2)
Eagle Ford 561 558 (3)
Haynesville 558 568 10
Niobrara 443 474 31
Permian 1,051 1,043 (8)
Total 4,421 4,443 22

NOTE: The Drilling Productivity Report (DPR) rig productivity metric new-well oil/natural gas production per rig can become unstable during periods of rapid decreases or increases in the number of active rigs and well completions. The metric uses a fixed ratio of estimated total production from new wells divided by the region's monthly rig count, lagged by two months. The metric does not represent new-well oil/natural gas production per newly completed well.

The DPR metric legacy oil/natural gas production change can become unstable during periods of rapid decreases or increases in the volume of well production curtailments or shut-ins. This effect has been observed during winter weather freeze-offs, extreme flooding events, and the 2020 global oil demand contraction. The DPR methodology involves applying smoothing techniques to most of the data series because of inherent noise in the data.

September 2021 Supplement: Gas-to-oil ratios in U.S. primary oil-producing regions.
January 2021 Supplement: Base production in North Dakota has fully recovered after a significant reduction.
September 2020 Supplement: With low rig counts, the inventory of drilled but uncompleted (DUC) wells provides short-term reserve for completions of new wells.
August 2020 Supplement: Rig counts fall but new-well production per rig rise as new-well production persists.
March 2020 Supplement: Base production accounts for a material share of total U.S. tight oil production.

key tight oil and shale gas regions

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